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Neither party is sainted, and dominance tends to encourage the worst of political habits

Director Guy Ritchie once more delivers a kinetic and consequence-free tribute to the criminal lifestyle.

All the busted heads and blasted gaskets can't turn this makeover of a cult classic into anything but a real drag.

Bollywood sequel is a political drama that further explores episodes in the lives of the powerful Nagre clan.

Del McCoury and friends stick it to the Men

This Brazilian film is set against the twinned, opposing backdrops of the explosive 1970 World Cup and the human toll of the country's brutal military dictatorship.

Before giving in to romantic frippery, Definitely, Maybe functions as a believable, era-zagging retelling of one man’s overlapping love affairs with three women.

An interim election and an AG opinion stir thoughts of Capitol changes

Despite a script by Aaron Sorkin, direction by Mike Nichols, and star turns by Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Philip Seymour Hoffman, this good-natured geopolitical romp falls flat.

Woody Harrelson stars as a professional escort for political wives in this Paul Schrader movie about sex, murder, scandal, and adultery in Washington, D.C.

Two recent Texas lessons about the relation between religion and freedom

Democrat responds to state rep's announcement

The NC-17-rated passion in Ang Lee's movie is at distinct odds with the chilly film that surrounds its lovers.

Paul Haggis and Tommy Lee Jones deliver a scorching film that's part police procedural, part family melodrama, and all about our national failures in Iraq.

If you're growing as weary of Iraq war documentaries as you are of the war itself, then this sobering, information-filled study of the war's origins is the film for you.

Professional gadfly Michael Moore alights on the topic of the shortcomings of the American health-care system, and crafts his most widely accessible film to date.

His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, is truly a spiritual leader for the 21st century.

Kucinich's formal move against Cheney one more political weapon

Ken Loach paints a grim realist portrait that captures the solemnity of an Ireland turning on itself and the tragedy of two brothers spiraling away from each other.

This multiaward-winning documentary was two years in the making and tells stories about modern Iraq in the words of civilians of various ethnicities.

Why is Paul Burka "the dean" of Texas politics?

Unfortunately, what makes British abolitionist William Wilberforce a great man is also what makes him dull: his single-minded righteousness.

Set in China and starring Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, and Liev Schreiber, this melodic adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel is the story of many things – but it is most of all the story of a marriage.

Like the very word this documentary examines, F*ck can be found all over the place.

More sleight of hand than persuasive drama, this what-if story about the aftermath of a presidential assassination is technically seamless but dramatically hollow.

Israeli film presents the region's conflict in terms of the world's most annoying, dysfunctional-family road trip, which renders the proceedings almost as exhausting as the real thing.

Al Gore’s zeal for spreading knowledge about global warming is inspiring and this documentary about his efforts also showcases the new, improved Gore.

When it's 'good vs. evil,' political discourse is impossible

A rare opportunity to see what's considered the best in the field of short docs; plus all four nominees have a socio-political bent.